The Naxi language of southwestern China may be written in the syllabic geba script. There is also a Naxi tradition of pictographic symbols called dongba; this may sometimes be glossed with geba for clarification, since a dongba text may be intelligible only to its author.
A Latin alphabet was developed for Naxi in the 20th century.
Facing pages of a Naxi manuscript, displaying both pictographic dongba and smaller syllabic geba.
The Naxi language of southwestern China may be written in the syllabic geba script. There is also a Naxi tradition of pictographic symbols called dongba;...
a syllabic script for the Naxi language. It is called ¹Ggo¹baw in Naxi, adapted as Geba, 哥巴, in Chinese. Some glyphs resemble the Yi script, and some appear...
for the Naxi language, e.g. the 1932 Naxi Gospel of Mark and used in the Zaiwa or Atsi language e.g. the 1938 Atsi Gospel of Mark. The script uses uppercase...
Shenrab Miwo (Tibetan: gshen rab mi bo), while traditional Naxi genealogies attribute the script to a 13th-century king named Móubǎo Āzōng. From Chinese...
Naxi (Naqxi IPA: [nɑ˨˩ ɕi˧˧]), also known as Nakhi, Nasi, Lomi, Moso, Mo-su, is a Sino-Tibetan language or group of languages spoken by some 310,000 people...
Sino-Tibetan language of the Naxi people Naxi District (納溪區), Luzhou, Sichuan Naxiscript, script(s) used to write the Naxi language This disambiguation...
characters. Other scripts within China that have adapted some characters but are otherwise distinct include the Geba syllabary used to write the Naxi language...
or Nashi (simplified Chinese: 纳西族; traditional Chinese: 納西族; pinyin: Nàxī zú; Naxi: Naqxi) are a people inhabiting the Hengduan Mountains abutting the...
to the local Naxi rulers. During the Ming dynasty, the Naxi were one of the few border peoples to support the Ming immediately. As the Naxi helped the Ming...
the pictorial Dongba symbols without Geba annotation cannot represent the Naxi language, but are used as a mnemonic for the recitation of oral literature...
for the representation of names of scripts, is an international standard defining codes for writing systems or scripts (a "set of graphic characters used...
摩梭; pinyin: Mósuō; also spelled Moso, Mosso or Musuo), often called the Naxi among themselves, are a small ethnic group living in China's Yunnan and Sichuan...
language – Lisu script The Manchus – Manchu language – Manchu alphabet The Mongols – Mongolian language – Mongolian alphabet The Naxi – Naxi language – Dongba...
copies. The Gospel of Mark was translated into Naxi, spoken in Yunnan, by Elise Schapten using the Pollard script and published by the British and Foreign Bible...
in Lijiang in the northwest of Yunnan province, the center of the Nakhi (Naxi) people. The valley of Lijiang is dominated by the Yulong range, at whose...
玉水寨; pinyin: Yùshuǐzhài) is a natural village in the town of Baisha, Yulong Naxi Autonomous County, Lijiang, Yunnan, China. The village serves as a Dongba...
related to Burmese. The prestige variety is Nuosu, which is written in the Yi script. Of the more than 9 million Yi people, over 4.5 million live in Yunnan Province...
to handle characters (code points) in processes, like in line-breaking, script direction right-to-left or applying controls. Some "character properties"...
invented Afaka script in 1908. Moubao Azong - Tibetan king, ascribed invention of Dongba script, c. 1250 (?), according to traditional Naxi genealogy. Celadet...
taoqu structure of Chaozhou xianshi music. The Baisha xiyue tradition of the Naxi of Lijiang, Yunnan utilizes 24 qupai. Ba Ban (八板, Eight Beats) Huang Ying...
Jingpo, Lisu, Lahu, Naxi; Tai languages like Zhuang, Bouyei, Dong, Shui, Tai Lü and Tai Nüa; as well as Hmong–Mien languages. The Naxi, in particular, use...
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